combien
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#866
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
combien is anFrenchadv. It means: En quelle quantité, en quel nombre. Note d’usage : Utilisé avec de, en. Pronounced \kɔ̃.bjɛ̃\. It ranks #866 in French word frequency. Often confused with comble and corbin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.bjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for combien is 7 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.bjɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #866 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for combien, with forms such as "ccombien", "cmobien", and "cobmien". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "comble", "corbin", "combler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is combien, spelled C-O-M-B-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En quelle quantité, en quel nombre. Note d’usage : Utilisé avec de, en.
- 2Quelle quantité, quel nombre.
- 3Quel prix.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccombien,cmobien,cobmien,combbien,combein,combienn,combine,comiben,commbien,ocmbien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for combien
Misspelling Variants of "combien"
Frequency rank: #866 in French
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